Three comments on the Fermi gas at unitarity in a harmonic trap

Details Three comments on the Fermi gas at unitarity in a harmonic trap Three comments on the Fermi gas at unitarity in a harmonic trap

2007-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/0707.1851v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

6 pages, 1 figure

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In this note we consider three issues related to the unitary Fermi gas in a harmonic trap. We present a short proof of a virial theorem, which states that the average energy of a particle system at unitarity in a harmonic trap is twice larger than the average potential energy. The theorem is valid for all systems with no intrinsic scale, at zero or finite temperature. We discuss the odd-even splitting in a unitarity Fermi gas in a harmonic trap. We show that at large number of particles N the odd-even splitting is proportional to N^{1/9}\hbar\omega, with an undetermined numerical constant. We also show that for odd N the lowest excitation energies are of order N^{-1/3}\hbar\omega.

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